since lintian gained support for
vendor profiles, or at least since it has a nice documentation
about writing checks & even a tutorial
(the latter only local/in the package), I thought about writing some checks
in a specific 'pkg-perl' profile. after talking to niels at debconf13, I tried in late august,
& realized that at least simple checks are fun to write & really
not difficult; luckily niels also reviewed my first attempts. – & axel soon joined the fun & added some
more checks.

so here we are: the new pkg-perl-tools
package also ships a lintian vendor profile 'pkg-perl' with a
couple of simple but still useful checks that help to enforce our group
policy. if you want to use them, install the package and check /usr/share/doc/pkg-perl-tools/README.lintian,
if you want to look at the checks, you can also clone the git repo or
inspect it in gitweb
(directory lintian).

on an unrelated note: following the discussion on debian-project,
I finally revoked my old opengpg key 0x00F3CFE4 which served me
well from 1998 until 2009. since then, I've only been using
0x8649AA06 anyway ...